Yesterday I complained … only ONE retention superstar had responded from our Agitator audience — Colorado Public Radio. But I shouldn’t complain; it’s quality that counts. A second superb case study has arrived. Jonathon Grapsas at Flat Earth Direct in Australia has been working on retention amongst clients who do much of their donor acquisition via face-to-face solicitation. MORE
We live in the Colorado foothills near Boulder.). We are now within a couple weeks of launching our marketing campaign to Colorado nonprofits first. MORE
Qdoba Mexican Grill, a Colorado-based fast-casual Mexican food chain restaurant, is doing one of those instant-on cause marketing efforts benefiting the firefighting effort in the wildfire-ravaged state of Colorado. Next Tuesday, July 10, 2012 all 72 Qdoba restaurants in Colorado will ask customers for a minimum $1 donation to the Red Cross fund called Colorado Wildfires 2012. Qdoba Colorado Wildfires 2012 American Red Cross Instant-On Cause Marketing cause marketing MORE
As part of our work to redesign the website of the Colorado Nonprofit Association, we surveyed the websites of every other state nonprofit association across the country. Nonprofit Design Nonprofit Web colorado nonprofit association design navigation nonprofit association state site usability web web designWant to know where the best association websites are? You might be surprised to see that the most populous states aren’t necessarily those who lead the field in our [.]. MORE
Director of Communications , The Colorado Trust (Denver, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for full-time or part-time staff, consulting or internship opportunities. New Opportunities. Account Manager , Strength in Numbers (Boulder, CO). MORE
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naval yard massacre) and natural disasters (flooding in Colorado)— highlight the delicacy of communicating effectively in the shadow of disaster. Post by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. The crises of recent days—both person-made (the D.C. Crises like these emphasize the fragility of human life and daily life as we know it, so naturally send many of us into a personal tailspin, even if we’re not personally affected. MORE
5) Manager, Marketing and Media Relations , Junior Achievement , (Colorado Springs, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for FT or PT staff, consulting or internship opportunities. NEW OPPORTUNITIES. 1) Account Director, Digital , Fenton , (New York, NY). MORE
Nonprofit Annual Report Nonprofit Copywriting Nonprofit Messaging Nonprofit communications Storytelling amory lovins best practices colorado public radio communication luis alberto urrea messages narrative nonprofit storytelling NPR rocky mountain institute storyThere’s no question that stories are an essential gateway to understanding complex issues. This was as true in Shakespeare’s and Cervante’s times as it is today. MORE
Were company responses to the Yarnell wildfire deaths, Boston bombings and even to the current flooding in Colorado tragic or triumphant? MORE
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Healthier Colorado. Fact: We love Healthier Colorado’s donation page. From their logo at the top to the textured background to the visually appealing color scheme, Healthier Colorado makes you want to donate just by looking at their page. Kicking off with #GivingTuesday, year-end fundraising season will be in full swing. This busy time is marked with nonprofits around the world striving for new and exciting ways to engage with potential donors. MORE
Marketing Communications Specialist Colorado HealthOP (Denver, CO). Online Communications Specialist The Resource Exchange (Colorado Springs, CO). Post YOUR open nonprofit marketing and communications positions here. MORE
Nancy Schwartz and I will be spending the day with nonprofits from Hong Kong, Calgary, Missouri, Texas, Colorado, California, Oregon, and across Washington, taking them step-by-step through the process of creating a real-world nonprofit marketing plan. MORE
The good news is that we finally got past last Fall’s Colorado Flood Disaster. Now we’ll resume regular blog posts. You’ll note that the blog is now organized into five ever-evolving content libraries. The one I think will be most cool and most fun is The SNARK TANK! We begin posting new content next week. But […]. Fun Stuff Uncategorized brand management branding crisis communications nonprofit branding Nonprofit marketing VisABILITY MORE
Teva, the footwear company, started out making sandals for Colorado River Guides. And at its founding in 1984, Teva supported the nonprofit Save the Colorado, as it still does today. The key partners are the Waterkeeper Alliance, Ocean Conservancy and Save the Colorado. MORE
Colorado’s flood disaster badly messed up Boulder County. It says at the top “this post is personal.” ” The cheery clown signals how lucky our family and company were last September. Torrents thundered down from the High Country, pushing boulders and trees and houses and trucks through our town’s commercial and residential districts – heading for Nebraska. […]. Fun Stuff Uncategorized MORE
Based in Denver, he has worked with an illustrious list of non-profits in the Western United states including: The Daniels Fund, Children''s Hospital Colorado Foundation, HopeWest Hospice, University of Wyoming, Colorado School of Mines, Historic Denver, Inc. As a filmmaker with more than 30 years of professional experience, I have witnessed the ability of film to get to the heart of a message, faster, and more powerfully than any other medium. MORE
When I posted about Qdoba’s instant-on cause marketing effort to benefit the Colorado wildfire crisis, the estimable cause marketer Steve Drake asked where was the rest of these kind of promotions were to be found, especially in the state of Colorado. In fact, a number of Colorado food and dining establishments have offered cause marketing, flat donations of money and food, in addition to prayers. MORE
5) Manager, Marketing and Media Relations , Junior Achievement , (Colorado Springs, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for FT or PT staff, consulting or internship opportunities. NEW OPPORTUNITIES. MORE
Happily putting the Colorado Floods behind us.** We’re back to posting. Now we’re rolling out a new series Called the Major Gift Sandbox. It explains Major Gift activity for beginners. MORE
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Compound irony here… Lyons is recovering from the Colorado Floods! Until September 12 VisABILITY operated out of buildings in Lyons Colorado. Funny Post. Our company is going strong & we’re ready to post again. MORE
Minnesota and Colorado are robust examples. There are so many compelling job opportunities for us nonprofit communicators. In fact, job responsibilities in our field continue to grow more varied as channels, platforms, and approaches evolve. MORE
Communications Coordinator , Colorado Water Trust (Denver, CO). Please post your open nonprofit marketing positions here. Chief Marketing Officer , National Aquarium (Baltimore, MD). Communications Associate , The Anti-Violence Project. New York, NY). Communications Coordinator , Blue Shield of California Foundation (Chico, CA). Communications Manager , Grand Canyon Trust (Flagstaff, AZ). Email & Mobile Manager , Amnesty International (Flexible location). MORE
Kassie Pelan is the Communications Coordinator for Re:Vision , a nonprofit based in Denver, Colorado. Kassie Pelan. Here’s the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators, where we ask you to describe your day in your own words. . MORE
Mission Minded’s work on behalf of Denver Art Museum won a Colorado American Marketing Association PEAK award in the integrated marketing campaign category last night. The award recognized the strategic positioning and creative execution of the Marvelous Mud campaign which appeared throughout Denver during the Summer of 2012. Of particular note is that the campaign [.]. MORE
Nonprofit Annual Report Nonprofit communications Nonprofit Copywriting Nonprofit Messaging Storytelling amory lovins best practices colorado public radio communication luis alberto urrea messages narrative nonprofit storytelling NPR rocky mountain institute storyThere’s no question that stories are an essential gateway to understanding complex issues. This was as true in Shakespeare’s and Cervante’s times as it is today. MORE
Development Associates International (Colorado Springs, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for full-time or part-time staff, consulting or internship opportunities. Thanks! NEW OPPORTUNITIES. 1) Communications and Community Advocacy Associate. Sage (New York, NY). MORE
Select locations of LaMar’s Donuts in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska offered a free donut to people wearing the ‘I Voted’ sticker. Preliminary estimates suggest that voter turnout in yesterday’s general election in the United States was several million short of 2008. MORE
After this presentation, you should walk away with resources to understand: best practices for growing your email list best practices for optimizing the emails you send examples of nonprofits using email marketing to grow their online fundraising About our speaker Justin Perkins is an entrepreneur, environmentalist, accidental techie, new media marketing expert and former State water resources administrator for a major watershed in Colorado. MORE
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Colorado’s flood disaster badly messed up Boulder County. It says at the top “this post is personal.” ” The cheery clown signals how lucky our family and company were last September. Torrents thundered down from the High Country, pushing boulders and trees and houses and trucks through our town’s commercial and residential districts – heading for Nebraska. […]. Fun Stuff Uncategorized MORE
Collins, Colorado, said to be the seventh largest brewery in the United States, did just that with this ad in Sunset magazine. On Monday’s post I touched on the topic of telling people what your cause marketing campaign accomplished when completed. MORE
Now that we have recovered from last September’s Colorado Flood Disaster, we are getting ready to resume publication of this blog. But first – we’re reformatting. Moving some posts into libraries under new headings. Oddly, as we move older articles into a new locations, a few republish themselves. And pop into your inbox. Under their [… MORE
Development Associates International (Colorado Springs, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for full-time or part-time staff, consulting or internship opportunities. Thanks! NEW OPPORTUNITIES. MORE
Breckenridge - September 15 - Rocky Mountain Philanthropy Institute If you're in or around Colorado, join us for RMPI - the Rocky Mountain Philanthropy Institute. I'll be on the road quite a bit this fall. If you'll be at one of these events, let's try to meet up! MORE
Colorado Online Organizer , Stand for Children (Denver, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for full-time or part-time staff, consulting or internship opportunities. New Opportunities. Campaign Manager , Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (San Francisco, CA). MORE
5) Manager, Marketing and Media Relations , Junior Achievement , (Colorado Springs, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for FT or PT staff, consulting or internship opportunities. NEW OPPORTUNITIES. 1) Account Director, Digital , Fenton , (New York, NY). MORE
Amie Bennight is Communications Manager for CPCD …giving children a head start, a nonprofit organization in Colorado Springs. Amie Bennight. MORE
Mission Minded’s work on behalf of Denver Art Museum won a Colorado American Marketing Association PEAK award in the integrated marketing campaign category last night. The award recognized the strategic positioning and creative execution of the Marvelous Mud campaign which appeared throughout Denver during the Summer of 2012. Of particular note is that the campaign was extremely [.]. MORE
What happened at the Colorado shooting? As you reflect on your ‘market’ for the coming year, perhaps you should be careful about overestimating. I know your donors are attentive to the big picture, well-informed, and serious-minded. MORE
We got one response … from Jim East at Colorado Public Radio. Last week, Roger and I asked for retention superstars to tell us their stories. We loosely set the superstar benchmark at an overall 70% retention rate. Given that we have thousands of readers, who generally respond with enthusiasm, we hoped to have dozens of retention success stories to share with you. But no such luck with retention. MORE
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Healthier Colorado is a nonprofit working to elevate the voices of Coloradans in the public policy process, ensuring healthier standards of living across the state’s diverse communities. How did Healthier Colorado get its start?
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Qdoba Mexican Grill, a Colorado-based fast-casual Mexican food chain restaurant, is doing one of those instant-on cause marketing efforts benefiting the firefighting effort in the wildfire-ravaged state of Colorado. Next Tuesday, July 10, 2012 all 72 Qdoba restaurants in Colorado will ask customers for a minimum $1 donation to the Red Cross fund called Colorado Wildfires 2012. Qdoba Colorado Wildfires 2012 American Red Cross Instant-On Cause Marketing cause marketing
Cause Related Marketing
JULY 12, 2012
When I posted about Qdoba’s instant-on cause marketing effort to benefit the Colorado wildfire crisis, the estimable cause marketer Steve Drake asked where was the rest of these kind of promotions were to be found, especially in the state of Colorado. In fact, a number of Colorado food and dining establishments have offered cause marketing, flat donations of money and food, in addition to prayers.
Mission Minded
MAY 12, 2014
Blog Nonprofit Branding Nonprofit Messaging Storytelling brand Colorado nonprofit snow Also titled: Why I Refuse to Get Out My Snow Shovel Today is Monday, May 12, 2014, and I’m feeling a bit glum.
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
We live in the Colorado foothills near Boulder.). We are now within a couple weeks of launching our marketing campaign to Colorado nonprofits first.
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Nonprofit Annual Report Nonprofit Copywriting Nonprofit Messaging Nonprofit communications Storytelling amory lovins best practices colorado public radio communication luis alberto urrea messages narrative nonprofit storytelling NPR rocky mountain institute storyThere’s no question that stories are an essential gateway to understanding complex issues. This was as true in Shakespeare’s and Cervante’s times as it is today.
NonProfit Branding
OCTOBER 29, 2013
Happily putting the Colorado Floods behind us.** We’re back to posting. Now we’re rolling out a new series Called the Major Gift Sandbox. It explains Major Gift activity for beginners.
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JUNE 28, 2012
Nonprofit Annual Report Nonprofit communications Nonprofit Copywriting Nonprofit Messaging Storytelling amory lovins best practices colorado public radio communication luis alberto urrea messages narrative nonprofit storytelling NPR rocky mountain institute storyThere’s no question that stories are an essential gateway to understanding complex issues. This was as true in Shakespeare’s and Cervante’s times as it is today.
NonProfit Branding
JULY 2, 2014
Colorado’s flood disaster badly messed up Boulder County. It says at the top “this post is personal.” ” The cheery clown signals how lucky our family and company were last September. Torrents thundered down from the High Country, pushing boulders and trees and houses and trucks through our town’s commercial and residential districts – heading for Nebraska. […]. Fun Stuff Uncategorized
NonProfit Branding
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
Now that we have recovered from last September’s Colorado Flood Disaster, we are getting ready to resume publication of this blog. But first – we’re reformatting. Moving some posts into libraries under new headings. Oddly, as we move older articles into a new locations, a few republish themselves. And pop into your inbox. Under their […
NonProfit Branding
FEBRUARY 27, 2014
The good news is that we finally got past last Fall’s Colorado Flood Disaster. Now we’ll resume regular blog posts. You’ll note that the blog is now organized into five ever-evolving content libraries. The one I think will be most cool and most fun is The SNARK TANK! We begin posting new content next week. But […]. Fun Stuff Uncategorized brand management branding crisis communications nonprofit branding Nonprofit marketing VisABILITY
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DECEMBER 1, 2014
Marketing Communications Specialist Colorado HealthOP (Denver, CO). Online Communications Specialist The Resource Exchange (Colorado Springs, CO). Post YOUR open nonprofit marketing and communications positions here.
Getting Attention
JUNE 23, 2014
Communications Coordinator , Colorado Water Trust (Denver, CO). Please post your open nonprofit marketing positions here. Chief Marketing Officer , National Aquarium (Baltimore, MD). Communications Associate , The Anti-Violence Project. New York, NY). Communications Coordinator , Blue Shield of California Foundation (Chico, CA). Communications Manager , Grand Canyon Trust (Flagstaff, AZ). Email & Mobile Manager , Amnesty International (Flexible location).
Getting Attention
APRIL 1, 2013
Colorado Online Organizer , Stand for Children (Denver, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for full-time or part-time staff, consulting or internship opportunities. New Opportunities. Campaign Manager , Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (San Francisco, CA).
Cause Related Marketing
JANUARY 23, 2012
Teva, the footwear company, started out making sandals for Colorado River Guides. And at its founding in 1984, Teva supported the nonprofit Save the Colorado, as it still does today. The key partners are the Waterkeeper Alliance, Ocean Conservancy and Save the Colorado.
Getting Attention
JULY 27, 2012
Development Associates International (Colorado Springs, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for full-time or part-time staff, consulting or internship opportunities. Thanks! NEW OPPORTUNITIES. 1) Communications and Community Advocacy Associate. Sage (New York, NY).
Getting Attention
JUNE 15, 2012
4) Communications Officer , The Colorado Trust (Denver, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here —FT or PT staff, consulting or internship opportunities. NEW OPPORTUNITIES. 1) Communications and Events Manager. Community of Hope (Washington, D.C.).
Getting Attention
APRIL 13, 2016
Minnesota and Colorado are robust examples. There are so many compelling job opportunities for us nonprofit communicators. In fact, job responsibilities in our field continue to grow more varied as channels, platforms, and approaches evolve.
Getting Attention
OCTOBER 21, 2013
Director of Communications , The Colorado Trust (Denver, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for full-time or part-time staff, consulting or internship opportunities. New Opportunities. Account Manager , Strength in Numbers (Boulder, CO).
EveryAction
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Healthier Colorado. Fact: We love Healthier Colorado’s donation page. From their logo at the top to the textured background to the visually appealing color scheme, Healthier Colorado makes you want to donate just by looking at their page. Kicking off with #GivingTuesday, year-end fundraising season will be in full swing. This busy time is marked with nonprofits around the world striving for new and exciting ways to engage with potential donors.
Mission Minded
JUNE 8, 2012
Mission Minded’s work on behalf of Denver Art Museum won a Colorado American Marketing Association PEAK award in the integrated marketing campaign category last night. The award recognized the strategic positioning and creative execution of the Marvelous Mud campaign which appeared throughout Denver during the Summer of 2012. Of particular note is that the campaign [.].
Mission Minded
JUNE 8, 2012
Mission Minded’s work on behalf of Denver Art Museum won a Colorado American Marketing Association PEAK award in the integrated marketing campaign category last night. The award recognized the strategic positioning and creative execution of the Marvelous Mud campaign which appeared throughout Denver during the Summer of 2012. Of particular note is that the campaign was extremely [.].
Getting Attention
JULY 8, 2011
5) Manager, Marketing and Media Relations , Junior Achievement , (Colorado Springs, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for FT or PT staff, consulting or internship opportunities. NEW OPPORTUNITIES. 1) Account Director, Digital , Fenton , (New York, NY).
Getting Attention
JULY 8, 2011
5) Manager, Marketing and Media Relations , Junior Achievement , (Colorado Springs, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for FT or PT staff, consulting or internship opportunities. NEW OPPORTUNITIES. 1) Account Director, Digital , Fenton , (New York, NY).
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
JUNE 9, 2011
Nancy Schwartz and I will be spending the day with nonprofits from Hong Kong, Calgary, Missouri, Texas, Colorado, California, Oregon, and across Washington, taking them step-by-step through the process of creating a real-world nonprofit marketing plan.
Getting Attention
JULY 20, 2012
Development Associates International (Colorado Springs, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for full-time or part-time staff, consulting or internship opportunities. Thanks! NEW OPPORTUNITIES.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
Amie Bennight is Communications Manager for CPCD …giving children a head start, a nonprofit organization in Colorado Springs. Amie Bennight.
Getting Attention
JULY 1, 2011
5) Manager, Marketing and Media Relations , Junior Achievement , (Colorado Springs, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for FT or PT staff, consulting or internship opportunities. NEW OPPORTUNITIES.
Getting Attention
JULY 1, 2011
5) Manager, Marketing and Media Relations , Junior Achievement , (Colorado Springs, CO). Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for FT or PT staff, consulting or internship opportunities. NEW OPPORTUNITIES.
Cause Related Marketing
NOVEMBER 8, 2012
Select locations of LaMar’s Donuts in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska offered a free donut to people wearing the ‘I Voted’ sticker. Preliminary estimates suggest that voter turnout in yesterday’s general election in the United States was several million short of 2008.
Getting Attention
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
naval yard massacre) and natural disasters (flooding in Colorado)— highlight the delicacy of communicating effectively in the shadow of disaster. Post by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. The crises of recent days—both person-made (the D.C. Crises like these emphasize the fragility of human life and daily life as we know it, so naturally send many of us into a personal tailspin, even if we’re not personally affected.
The Agitator
OCTOBER 14, 2013
Yesterday I complained … only ONE retention superstar had responded from our Agitator audience — Colorado Public Radio. But I shouldn’t complain; it’s quality that counts. A second superb case study has arrived. Jonathon Grapsas at Flat Earth Direct in Australia has been working on retention amongst clients who do much of their donor acquisition via face-to-face solicitation.
The Agitator
OCTOBER 13, 2013
We got one response … from Jim East at Colorado Public Radio. Last week, Roger and I asked for retention superstars to tell us their stories. We loosely set the superstar benchmark at an overall 70% retention rate. Given that we have thousands of readers, who generally respond with enthusiasm, we hoped to have dozens of retention success stories to share with you. But no such luck with retention.
Fundraising Coach
AUGUST 7, 2017
Breckenridge - September 15 - Rocky Mountain Philanthropy Institute If you're in or around Colorado, join us for RMPI - the Rocky Mountain Philanthropy Institute. I'll be on the road quite a bit this fall. If you'll be at one of these events, let's try to meet up!
Selfish Giving
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
Were company responses to the Yarnell wildfire deaths, Boston bombings and even to the current flooding in Colorado tragic or triumphant?
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2014
Kassie Pelan is the Communications Coordinator for Re:Vision , a nonprofit based in Denver, Colorado. Kassie Pelan. Here’s the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators, where we ask you to describe your day in your own words. .
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FEBRUARY 6, 2014
Based in Denver, he has worked with an illustrious list of non-profits in the Western United states including: The Daniels Fund, Children''s Hospital Colorado Foundation, HopeWest Hospice, University of Wyoming, Colorado School of Mines, Historic Denver, Inc. As a filmmaker with more than 30 years of professional experience, I have witnessed the ability of film to get to the heart of a message, faster, and more powerfully than any other medium.
Fundraising 123
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
After this presentation, you should walk away with resources to understand: best practices for growing your email list best practices for optimizing the emails you send examples of nonprofits using email marketing to grow their online fundraising About our speaker Justin Perkins is an entrepreneur, environmentalist, accidental techie, new media marketing expert and former State water resources administrator for a major watershed in Colorado.
Cause Related Marketing
MARCH 5, 2013
Collins, Colorado, said to be the seventh largest brewery in the United States, did just that with this ad in Sunset magazine. On Monday’s post I touched on the topic of telling people what your cause marketing campaign accomplished when completed.
The Agitator
JANUARY 2, 2013
What happened at the Colorado shooting? As you reflect on your ‘market’ for the coming year, perhaps you should be careful about overestimating. I know your donors are attentive to the big picture, well-informed, and serious-minded.
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